Let the New Machine Age Begin

We are ready for it! One of the first questions I have asked no one in particular is: what will change when artificial intelligence is part of the fabric of day to day life? It sounds like a simple question, but it had a logical fallacy in that for the last 30 years, artificial intelligence (AI) projects were science experiments with high expectations and low delivery rates. The AI systems of the past were nowhere near as commonplace as the possibilities that were presented to us. We weren’t even nearing the feats of the “The Engine,” described in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels almost 300 years ago. The Engine is a contraption that arranges words (quite manually or artificially) so that any ignorant person… “at a reasonable charge, and with a little…